I thought they were revered. The Punk Beatles & all. Honestly, I don't want to hear what they sound like today. Those records were pure perfect pop music. But I certainly want them to make money, they deserve that.

like deep in the rainforest, the middle of fucking nowhere. He was from Manchester and the world's biggest Buzzcocks fan. He knew Steve Diggle personally, and to prove this he showed me a whole bunch of text messages on his phone from the guy. Some of them were really old, presumably he'd kept them in order to impress strangers in his travels around the world. He also had a few SMSs from Steve Hanley (The Fall), some of which were bitching about Steve Diggle. I remember one of them said "There's always a point in every Buzzcocks gig where you just want to yell out 'Fuck off, Diggle'".